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Definitions
a surveying instrument for measuring horizontal and vertical angles, consisting of a small telescope mounted on a tripod
Word origin
From New Latin theodolitus (1571), perhaps containing Ancient Greek θέᾱ (théā, “sight, view”) and Arabic العِضَادَة (al-ʕiḍāda, “astrolabe, alidade”); if so, doublet of alidade.
Used in a sentence
“I drew outlines (according to my usual custom) of all the hills on the horizon before us, and took angles on them with the theodolite.”
“The height of those mountains was from five to seven thousand feet above our level, by angular measurement with a theodolite.”
“It was a lieutenant and a couple of privates of the 8th Hussars, with a stand like a theodolite, which the artilleryman told me was a heliograph.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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